ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
1. In various senses of the vb.
1611. Cotgr., Agacé … incensed, prouoked, exasperated.
1660. Milton, Free Commw., 424. We remain finally secure from the exasperated Regal Power.
1661. Lovell, Hist. Anim. & Min., 35. Cows milk … used as a gargarisme, helps the throat straightened by catarrhes, and the exasperated jawes.
1694. Phillips, trans. Milton’s Lett. State, 29 July 1655. Such exasperated Cruelties inflicted upon the Professors of the same Religion with our selves.
a. 1714. Burnet, Own Time (1823), I. 67. That raised the spirits of those that were already but too much exasperated.
1756. Lady M. W. Montagu, Lett., xcv. IV. 73. She eloped one fair morning … leaving her two daughters … to the care of the exasperated marquis.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 209. I saw that they were getting exasperated with one another.
b. Her. (See quot.)
1830. Robson, Brit. Her., Exasperated, depicted in a furious attitude.
† 2. ? Narrowed gradually to a point, tapered.
1607. Topsell, Serpents (1653), 674. If it were not for these bunches … it would be so exasperated or extenuated toward the end like to the tail of a Rat or great Mouse.
Hence Exasperatedly adv., † Exasperatedness, Obs.–0 = EXASPERATION 3.
1872. Daily News, 26 Aug., 5/3. The others … raged exasperatedly against him in their clubs.
1886. Mrs. E. Moberly, Lady Valeria, II. v. 110. Lord Altcar laughed again, but exasperatedly.
1730–6. Bailey (folio), Exasperatedness, incensedness, the being exasperated.
1775. Ash, Exasperatedness.
